their international market knowing that these industries out of polluting simply ignored my. mother. and mother to. the end of this. i. couldn't write as clashed with the french police and. the government's decision to accept that you didn't get

a straight. president says provided sufficient guarantees for a song to safely leave. china it's one of the bosses of the country. she faces extradition to the united states. troops in the u.s. china trade. thanks for choosing. the last. welcome to the program. as students across france have stepped up their protests against the government's education reforms on thursday they forced over one hundred fifty schools to close affecting dozens of others with blockades in

a number of cities the demonstrations spilled over into violence. and students so unhappy about changes to the university admissions process as well as increases in tuition fees the rest comes as the country braces for a fresh wave of ghetto vest vonage this weekend over fuel tax hikes more details you shot it to bits but it's good. to do so have come out to protest in the center of paris by saying that they're unhappy to raise the prices of the registration fees to foreign students in comparison to local students and they're hoping that if

not that huge change was announced by the government last night in france over those rises in the field tax they will be also able to get to hear their demands and they will also be met basically protest groups now seeing that they can see no blood's and they sing a fractured wrist government could possibly give in to some of their demands however the yellow vests so they huffy with all they've been open so full it seems many all north we've been speaking to some of the other that's been telling us that it's too little shoe late by the muslim governments. so it's a step backwards it shows mccraw and listens to the public only when things like this happen people are angry and the women across the country insults them even. policemen are protesting they're also fed up no one listens to them no one gives them up but you notice there is no way back because the country needs a new political strategy. while another protest is planned for this saturday by

this really shows who are not content that the government has really hurt their claims and their problems that a government is only saying that it is concerned it could be as violent as the previous saturday when the damage totals up through a million numerous there were more than one hundred people injured during those protests in france and also remove the four hundred people arrested as a result of that russian what appears to be a fishing within the french government last night the elisei government and hence the cancelling that increase in the fuel tax just hours after the french prime minister had gone to the national assembly to say that it would be suspended for six months there's no suggestion we're hearing from some of the parties from the left here for us that they would like to place an order of new confidence in the government that's taken this now to aleksey it could be any who's from the party

force also moves before that it is on the do the force of the yellow vests was demonstrated the government took a small step back but this is a maneuver and needs to be understood they postponed the decision to raise or not raise taxes for the period after the elections the european parliament however the universe clearly expressed their position they do not want a fuel price hike and they are right and then the problem of the high cost of living itself will not be solved people have an empty fridge now not after six months to know that bubbles was relays you don't say they will continue their movement the protests on saturday is still teaching it take place some suggestion that these protests could go on until the end of the year and we also know that there is no i disapprove of these protests now with one police you. i'm saying that it will go on strike on saturday. from the very start we supported the ideas of the yellow vests movement and at some point it became clear that we were not being we

continue losing our purchasing power police officers like us have also been affected by the increase in fuel prices we had little choice and we decided to go on strike it seems like the unrest in france is far from. charlotte even school. and with the yellow vests demonstrations continuing to gain momentum the french prime minister has warned protesters not to act violently this weekend. the government is going to deploy exceptional security measures which are going to be added to the sixty five thousand police deployed across france we will continue to question and bring to justice all the people we caught in flagrant acts of violence and degradation we will continue to show the greatest firmness we will fight hate which shows itself through unbelievable violence. as a precaution the authorities are still closing off the eiffel tower and south of our lawn with dozens of museums as well as half

a tourist hot spots including arc de triomphe were vandalized by demonstrators last week however political analyst nicholas coverage thinks the government isn't fully in control of the situation. bed definitely panicking they don't know what to do and the size of these protests which are going across france what it whether it be in europe or even on the other french idence is humongous and they haven't seen it coming they should have seen it because we have had not a single showing that this was coming out they didn't see it and now they're panicking and they don't know what to do best that's a legacy in france you have to get violent if you want things change so that's that this is also of course getting a positive message out of people think that bringing out more violence is going to change even more but so yes there will be more violence and also i do think that as the government is extremely clumsy they're trying to build on this violence to show that it is a violent movement and that's not working we've seen these past days mainstream media showing only videos pictures of the violence and unrest in major french

cities when ninety percent of these demonstrations across france are nonviolence. now meanwhile the yellow vest protests have spread far beyond french borders. she financial officer own daughter of the founder of the chinese smartphone giant toy away has been arrested by canadian authorities she's now facing extradition to

the u.s. over alleged violation of sanctions on iran the move threatens to reaganite a trade war between washington and beijing which did show signs of abating. more. well on december first when it was announced that a truce had been reached between president xi of china and president trump after their meeting in argentina there was an uptick on the global market before optimistic however now with the news that has come out about the c.f.o. of he alway being arrested in canada it's been widely alleged that this c.f.o. of the corporation has been involved somehow in violating the sanctions against iran however no no formal charges have been leveled as of yet the news that caused just a huge amount of uproar we're now seeing the stock market plunging to a two year low and at this point now we're seeing

a rather swift and strong response from china you need to demand an explanation for the detention and the person's immediate release the tension without providing any explanation violates the human rights of the detainee who are always one company we've been concerned about there are others as well as the negotiations proceed i think we're going to see a lot about what chinese companies have done to steal intellectual property to hack into the computer systems not just of the u.s. government but into private companies as well when trouble announced that he had reached an agreement with president xi at the g. twenty there was optimism but then when he followed up that tweet by reminding president xi that if a deal didn't work out too that he is a quote tariff man when that happened then there was another plunge in the markets now this is what lawrence kudlow of the white house economic council has has come forward and said i think it's coming ok and i want harry to tell us what give us some details well it hasn't been signed and sealed and delivered yet the mixed

signals regarding u.s. china trade relations and the many different statements that have been made in the news of this arrest have caused a bit of a roller coaster on the u.s. stock market this is been the riyadh. action from a representative of deutsche bank we believe this is a clear signal that the drug war is escalating to a new level public opinion in china will likely become more negative in respect to the trade war and potentially against u.s. companies the government may find it difficult to tell the public that they have offered significant concessions to the u.s. in the past hour trump has again expressed optimism that a trade deal can be reached with china within ninety days we spoke to the global head of currency strategy and market research at f.x. the extent to which the president's tweets are contributing to the volatility in the financial markets that's what's it feeds on now being watched as closely on the dashboards as economic data and traditional economic macro releases which is very

commonly being watched on my laptop as closely as anything oust the financial markets are very sensitive to such issues and this is something that you cannot predict you cannot predict what could come across social media feeds next you can't predict what could happen with political risk around the united states and china which is why financial markets are so sensitive and choppy so i mean a change in narrative if we see tonight or over the next couple of days more positive it's around the tree trimmers that relations are improve and then this much of over a verse once again however if we see the same soon political tension some hope it's a caress than what we've seen today and yesterday as currency prolong even further . i was u.s. china trade tension send shock waves across european markets the e.u. is taking steps to ease its dependence on the dollar the european commission has unveiled plans to boost the use of the euro in international and if you do. this

will allow european business is to benefit from stronger totally and financed through symbols with reduced exposure to legal actions taken by third country jurisdictions. on brussels and outs what comes after washington declared its withdrawal from the iran nuclear deal that move has forced many e.u. firms to stop trading with iran for fear of u.s. sanctions three years ago an international deal was agreed to end sanctions on the country in exchange for terrans scrapping its nuclear program that opened operands lucrative oil markets however this year trump that agreement doubling it disastrous all sanctions previously lifted were imposed which didn't sit well with europe. but . of president. bush. but if it was a legitimate a move getting new we will work to maintain the framework of the twenty fifteen deal in spite of the american decision and we will do so in

a concrete manner by maintaining our political engagements by ensuring that our companies can stay in iran and also by getting all parties to pursue negotiations for a larger indispensable deal steve kean the crowd funded professor of economics on patron believes trumps recent behavior on the international arena makes america a tough partner to work with. the recent road behavior by america because it got far worse than it was beforehand i think is convincing a lot of countries they simply can no longer a lock on the american dollar for international trade you have the most with being told not to allow iranian bank accounts to use which now you have a chinese citizen being arrested in canada for violating an american sanction all this sort of action is going to say we have to find another foundation apart from the american dollar for international trade and find it quickly and even though the euro is incredibly flawed at the moment it's the strongest alternative currency the main reason american manufacturing is not competitive as goes the dollar is

massively valued possibly twice what it should be deceiving international reserve currency so to be in the interests to say spinning the ins there's a currency but there's so addicted to power that they're going to probably in force try to enforce their power and well they will disrupt any attempt to use any currency other than the american dollar for trade meanwhile world markets a poison in anticipation ahead of opec's next move that saw for the group of some of the world's biggest oil producing nations agreed to cut in production a little haven't yet decided by how much exactly that move which is hoped will stabilize falling prices was agreed just recently at a meeting of the group along with russia the decision flies in the face of comments by donald trump who expressed hope the flow of oil would remain as it was he said any supply cut is not what the world wants to see right now well those comments by the u.s. president didn't go down so well with the saudi energy minister when asked to

comment on trump's position on the matter he said he wasn't in any place to instruct opec or saudi arabia what to do a man's energy minister confirmed the size of the cut will be decided on friday. do you get it do you recommend it to the crowd yes but we don't need to we didn't discuss it and they're not very new to your. work you do you recommend you do have you found out you were coming to class we all did you want to. be able to do all the things we can get him in and more or paid enough to toward the hope of plus if you use you will discuss income up in the fun of it. are much anticipated opec meeting comes following a thirty percent fall in oil prices just in the past two months one of the worst since the two thousand and eight financial crisis there's been a lot of interest as well off the katter and isles that was quitting the organization becoming the first gulf country to leave the block just head of

research at logan capital group gave us his thoughts on opec's plan cuts in oil production. i think politics does play a part in the movements and the oil price and the decision that opec's taking here it used to be that opec were the marginal produces so in essence opec completely controlled or supply these days that russia and the us do as well russia is partly partnering with opec the u.s. isn't so we have various marginal producers and i think that's why there's a lot of volatility in the market. another political factor i think is a bit involved here is that saudi arabia who are one of the leading opec member countries are trying to walk a tight rope here they're trying on the one hand to cut production to increase the oil price which is good for their national economy but then the other hand they're trying to appease u.s. president donald trump and he has a different motivation he would like all prices to stay low i think that's why

we're seeing all prices jump up and down so much because they have all these competing players globally for who has market share in and who is able to profit most from various price levels. and washington is threat to pull out of a key nuclear treaty with moscow has deepened the rift between the two sides with the u.s. accusing russia of noncompliance the american administration is going further though it's questioning the relevance of other international agreements and organizations artie's what i gather has more. it is time for change time for the old ways to die for a new undisputed leader a new american world order our mission is to reassert our sovereignty reform the liberal international order the central question that we face is that is the question of whether the system as currently configured as it exists today and as the world is this today doesn't work does it work for all the people of the world

the old ways are out of date united nations is useless incompetent the i.m.f. is obsolete european union pointless all these international organizations unions treaties and agreements they only hinder america tire its hands and cripple its power the logic is sound when we all be better off if we just let america rule american tends to leave now and always the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty russia is violating it says america others are bound by it it holds limits limits the united states and washington's policy requires it seems more nukes big nukes foster nukes one country in the world is bound by the i.n.f.

treaty us china is not bound by iran has an extensive b.m. capability but we have global responsibilities in asia and the middle east we have to be responsive to their terms international democracy has failed alliances have failed asians cannot tell right from wrong everyone wants a say but why let them they no longer know what's good for them america is good for them this is what president trump is doing he is. turning the united states to its traditional central leadership role in the world and so it seems we enter a new age in the age where might makes right without all the fluff and lip service to partnerships and equality the old world order is dead welcome to a new american age. the iron after treaty was signed in the final years of the cold

war production of short and medium range nuclear missiles are prohibited under the pact the us though claims russia is producing missiles in violation of that agreement moscow says washington's threatening its security would bases and missiles located in eastern europe former u.k. army officer charles through bridge gave us his take on the current situation. you've got this situation here where nato seems to be advocating one position on the part in support of the u.s. at the moment but many of its member states have not just privately but publicly raised their concern that this is part of the arms control mechanism breaking down and that this will of course hold in a new arms race of course the united states isn't just looking at europe it's looking elsewhere in the world and that i suspect is the key to what the american decision making here is as indeed the russian government has indicated that they're looking more at countries such as china iran possibly that are developing such systems that already have systems in place that would be bad for america and russia

to have because of the limitations on the range. protests took place across greece on thursday to mark ten years since the fatal police shooting of a teenage boy in athens a number of the protests turned violent. nothings protests to set up barricades in the streets and started fires one in for so long a q they hold fire bombs and stones at police who responded with tear gas at least fifty people were reportedly detained back in two thousand and eight a policeman shot dead a fifteen year old boy in athens you're on a quarrel with a group of teenagers who was found guilty of murder and sentenced to life in prison another policeman present was given ten years protests have taken place each year since the killing. during a soldier's lawyer has rejected

a deal struck by the u.k. and ecuador which was president claims will enable the wiki leaks co-founder to leave his country's embassy in london then moreno says that britain has given assurances it will not extradite assad's to any country where you might face the death penalty but what details here is are these police work. lenin miranda did a radio interview where he said that the british government has provided a guarantee in writing that julian assange should be safe to leave the ecuadorian embassy here in london and that he wouldn't be in danger of being extradited by the british authorities to any third country where he could potentially face the death penalty so as a headline this all sounds like jolly good news for julian assange but it's important to remember that the ecuadorian president isn't exactly judean a songes biggest fan lenin miranda has referred to the wiki leaks editor as a haka he said in that interview that he's fed up with the the wiki said it's

occupying his tiny ecuadorian embassy here in london i do not like the presence of mr sunshine in the durian embassy we have been respectful of his human rights with that in mind we think that six years is too long for someone to remain it's almost incarcerated and embassy how good the treatment is that they're receiving from hosting him costs is one million dollars a year the big concern especially for a songes lawyer is and it's a concern that they've had for the past six years that he spent in the embassy is the prospect of facing charges over in the u.s. criminal charges in fact last month it was revealed that the u.s. justice department had filed secret criminal charges against julian a songe but prosecutors have refused to reveal what specifically those charges are so however much the ecuadorian president wants to walk out it's really simple

on the one hand yes whatever the case against a songe in sweden was has long since expired and collapsed but technically a sound is still wanted by british authorities here in the u.k. for skipping bail i don't think this is over yet. human rights activist peter tatchell believes that even if assad has life isn't under threat you can still face up to fifty years in prison in the united states is certainly true that the british government would not extradite during a sanch to a third country where he could face the death penalty. and you know maybe the u.s. government might at some point give assurances that he won't face the death penalty but so far the u.s. government has not given those assurances and even if they did that would not preclude him facing charges which could land him in prison for thirty to fifty years and that is of most would be

a most unjust punishment for person an organization that he is part of who simply published published information which also been in the public domain from the get go. peace talks on the yemeni crisis are taking place in sweden on thursday the meeting aims to end in the four years of war we spoke to the president of the international committee of the red cross speed tomorrow he says both humanitarian and political measures should be taken to resolve the situation. at the present moment and with talks in sweden we do hope that we manage the international community manages to draw a pathway to or more peaceful revolution in yemen what is certainly true is that human need to reince by their own cannot fix the situation in which yemenis to be disease one of the most dire humanitarian situation we have seen people have been

dying not only from the direct attacks and the direct impact of war but in particular also from the destruction of infrastructure from destruction of hospitals of water systems and i think disease indeed a very dire situation which can only be fixed if a political solution is found and there is a slight. a light at the end of the tunnel maybe with peace talks going on in sweden. or yemen isn't the only country in the region suffering a humanitarian catastrophe in syria over thirteen million people are in need six million internally displaced in afghanistan as well the u.n. says over six million people are in need of assistance a third of them are children red cross president again as the organization is doing what it can in both countries. priorities in syria definitely is to have access to as many people displaced within syria tools support.

as ever we can to deliver a basic human need assistance in terms of water or health services services. many within syria are still displaced and we tried to contribute to the. largest operation worldwide where we are active in the whole of the country in all the provinces we have more than eleven outfits in afghanistan we are responding to people displaced we are responding to all populations in need in all parts of the stand we have been worried over the last couple of years to see how much the civilian population but not only the civilian population also these are exposed to enormous amounts of casualties we see people.

really heavily affected and the i.c.r.c. has one of the most multifaceted humanitarian the response program in afghanistan which we try to continue in the future. for myself and the team for this hour thanks for choosing all of the international tonight so you can join us again at six am for the latest updates in the meantime no hawks coming up next. as the protesters in france are saying their purchasing power has diminished because all this money printing that's going on and you mention they can't tell

a fact that money printing in which as the people on average in paris and little is a in paris and those people who are working and doing blue collar jobs their personal power is eroded and so they have that party and pamela anderson figured out that this is a structurally violent system that they need to address with a quid pro quo violence for violence. readings and. between now and december twenty fifth millions upon millions upon millions shoppers will hit the brick and mortar stores and online retailers be brutally buying up every last item or good one could possibly need to ring this year's holiday shopping season back the national retail federation is projecting

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